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Perl Haiku Contest Winners Announced
prostoalex writes "The ActiveState Perl Haiku Poetry Contest has ended. The results are in and here's the page with all the entries." Here's the original announcement.
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click on the link on the LHS and you get the Haikus IN perl.
If Microsoft did this
The winner would be:
What day is today?
Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Oh.
It's Releasepatchday.
Many perl haikus
Many Slashdot visitors
No response, it's down.
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Perl Haiku pushes the limit of the excuse of "why not?" when it comes to wasting your time.
Work is punishment for failing to procrastinate effectively.
I cannot create
a haiku in time for the
first post. Woe is me.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
Let poets write poems
Let coders write code
Stay your path
I liked this one:
Name: Albert Braun
Haiku:
my coworker thinks
perl is something to laugh at
it is not, smartass
i try to code perl
but i am very stupid
divide by zero
i suppose i should have inclided some line breaks in there...
I just don't get it.
What is this obsession of
Geeks and Haiku?
My name is Chandeep
IT pro from Bangalore
I have your job now!
These are terrible haikus... these people should stick to programming, not poetry. It makes me cringe just thinking about them...
Read the article.
Was not that interesting.
Now, time for some porn.
Damn if I know, dude.
It may well be the challenge;
Geeks are funny sorts.
KFG
You step in the stream
But the water has moved on
The page is not here
---- perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(
It's a common misconception that "haiku" means "5-7-5". This misconception is readily cleared up - see the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article in particular for a discussion, or the "How do you write a haiku?" part of the e2 writeup, which goes into detail in the distiction between Japanese haiku and English haiku and describes the innumerable subtle variations of the form.
That said, one of the best English haiku ever kind of abuses the system:
I told her and sheWas like, "oh, my god," and I
Was like, "oh, my god."
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
One of my entries won 3rd place in the 'Written In Perl' category. I flipped out when I saw I had actually won. I figured the 'brute force of brainwashing/pestering the judges' was, at best, worth a mild chuckle. And I certainly thought all of my others were better. But I'm not one to argue.
I've been going on and on about it since Monday. Mostly because for me, it it means I have now unmistakably crossed the point of no return. I can no longer deny I am a geek. I can no longer even pretend to. But It's ok, I have come to terms.
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